Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> writes: > Hi Guix, > > Here’s an update about bootstrapping for you.
Way to go! That's pretty awesome! > > I am very pleased to announce that Gash (having absorbed Geesh) is now > capable of building Bash without Bash, Coreutils, Grep, Sed, or Tar. > That is, Gash provides alternatives, written in Scheme, to all the > utilities needed by the “gnu-build-system” that are normally provided by > those packages. Note, however, that this work is still very much at the > “proof of concept” level. > > This is exciting because it means that we are within sight of removing > each of those packages from the set of bootstrap binaries (in the > context Jan’s work on MES and the Guix “reduced binary seed bootstrap”). > AIUI, that means that, besides Guile and MES, the set of bootstrap > binaries need only contain AWK, Patch, Bzip2, Gzip, and XZ. > > There is still a lot to do. Concretely, Gash itself has to be > bootstrapped. There is some mildly bit-rotten code for this that will > have to be revived. Gash should also be ported to Guile 2.0, since that > is the current bootstrap Guile, and it would be nice not to change it. > (This shouldn’t be too hard.) > > As for the other utilities, I don’t really have a strategy for them. I > would imagine that writing a good-enough “patch.scm” would not be too > hard. AWK is difficult, but after spending (way too much) time reading > “configure” scripts, I think it could be avoided. > > You can see the latest code at <https://gitlab.com/samplet/geesh> (yes, > the URL needs an update). The work described in this message is on the > “wip-bootstrap” branch. > > -- Tim > -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
